On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:17:49PM -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> It looks like this was a good move. As Havoc points out, SVG is the
> "consensus" format being developed by W3C to replace the earlier PGML and
> VML proposals. I don't think anyone on the AbiWord team has evaluated the
> spec technically, but I bet that with folks from both camps on the working
> group, it should be plenty big enough to have whatever features we might
> need. (And then some.)
And then some. After reading the spec, it certainly feels
designed-by-committee. :) It should be more than enough to allow me
to get some boxes 'n arrows in my documents, which is all I wanted
anyway.
Actually, it's not too bad.
> More specifically, at LinuxWorld back in March, Adobe's Bruce Hunt was
> evangelizing us to support SVG as our vector graphics format, and pointed us
> at the following potential sources of non-proprietary code:
>
> - a reference implementation based on the Java2D APIs
> - Peter Deutsch (Mr. GhostScript)
>
> Again, to my knowledge, nobody else has tracked down either of these leads,
> but I know which sounds more appealing to me. :-)
Yes, there is some Java code on the SVG site -- well a wee bit of Java
code implementing a small subset of SVG -- but I don't see any code by
Peter around. I don't see anything on the Ghostscript site either.
You don't know where I can find it, do you? Or perhaps it hasn't been
released yet?
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Matt Kimball
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